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Press Pass | Mitch Morse on Professionalism, Locker Room After a Win · The Jacksonville Jaguars Official Podcast Network

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  Speaker 1: What's going on, Mitch. With as trying as the season
• 0:03
  Speaker 1: has been for you guys to be able to sweep
• 0:05
  Speaker 1: a division rival like the Titans and a chance to
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  Speaker 1: wrap the season off up with another division win, what
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  Speaker 1: does that kind of mean for this group and all
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  Speaker 1: the work you guys have been doing.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, you can call a spade a spade.
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  Speaker 2: This year has not been what we all thought it
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  Speaker 2: would be, and that's you know, it's tested us being professionals.
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  Speaker 2: And I think when you can put a game like
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  Speaker 2: we did yesterday together, you know, it's just a celebration
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  Speaker 2: of the hard work that you put in, right, because
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  Speaker 2: we've been working. It's not from the lack of not working.
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  Speaker 2: So to answer your question, it was a great experience
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  Speaker 2: being in that locker room after a win like that.
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  Speaker 2: And then we understand we're going into a hostile environment
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  Speaker 2: against a divisional opponent who's very good. So listen, we
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  Speaker 2: all want to end on a win. You got to
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  Speaker 2: put your best foot forward as professionals, and that's what
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  Speaker 2: we plan on doing on Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: And does it mean anything that I mean, that's a
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  Speaker 1: lot of the losses have been those close losses. One
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  Speaker 1: play here one play there. This was another one of
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  Speaker 1: those games, but you actually kind of made the plays
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  Speaker 1: late that needed to be made.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean it feels nice to be on the
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  Speaker 2: other side of those one score games, right, like, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: we when you really look back and take a step
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  Speaker 2: back and you see those games that we lost. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it's gut wrenching, it's heartbreaking. It where's in your soul?
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  Speaker 2: So to end up with a game like that when
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  Speaker 2: you're on the other end of that was let's soothe this,
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  Speaker 2: to say the least.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks Mitch, You're welcome.
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  Speaker 3: Go to d Rock and then Mark Long. Hey, Mitch,
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  Speaker 3: good morning, Good morning. You've been with Doug before. Can
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  Speaker 3: you put your finger on with maybe why his message
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  Speaker 3: completely hasn't been able to get through to the guys
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  Speaker 3: this year. You know, I'm assuming he's sort of the
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  Speaker 3: same guy he was before and he hasn't changed. So
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  Speaker 3: is there any reason you can kind of figure out
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  Speaker 3: why maybe it just hasn't taken this year.
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  Speaker 2: I'm more confused by message.
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  Speaker 3: Well, he was talking about, you know, not making those
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  Speaker 3: same mistakes at the end of games, winning those one
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  Speaker 3: score games, not trying to force a play, letting the
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  Speaker 3: play come to you. All those kind of things that
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  Speaker 3: he's mentioned with us.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, listen, when you're in the thick of it,
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  Speaker 2: no one's trying to make mistakes, and no one's trying
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  Speaker 2: to take something to the hands that in their own
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  Speaker 2: hands where they think it's going to be detrimental to
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  Speaker 2: the team. I don't think it's a lack of listening
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  Speaker 2: to someone's message. I think it's just we all understand
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  Speaker 2: that we could have done a better job executing the plays.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I think there's a lot of unfortunate learning
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  Speaker 2: yeah moments this year, and I think a lot of
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  Speaker 2: guys will carry on throughout their professional careers.
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  Speaker 3: Is this the kind of season that stings with you
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  Speaker 3: or and sticks with you for a long time when
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  Speaker 3: you had such high expectations and it went awry the
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  Speaker 3: way it has.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely. I don't know if it's gonna I mean,
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  Speaker 2: some guys use this fuel, some guys uses a learning experience.
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  Speaker 2: Some guys uses both. For me and the later years
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  Speaker 2: of my career, I think this is it's been a
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  Speaker 2: unique experience, to say the least. I learned a lot
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  Speaker 2: about myself and I learned a lot about you know,
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  Speaker 2: just traversing losses and trying to come in the next
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  Speaker 2: day and the next week, and you know, progressing as
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  Speaker 2: a player and as a person. So yeah, I think
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  Speaker 2: that that question is a good one, and I think
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  Speaker 2: it's going to be very individualized for each person. There's
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  Speaker 2: ninety guys or so in this locker room a little
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  Speaker 2: bit less. Each person's going to have a different answer
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  Speaker 2: for that.
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  Speaker 3: Is it easy for players to sort of compartmentalize the
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  Speaker 3: stuff that's going on. You don't know if the head
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  Speaker 3: coach is going to be back or not the next
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  Speaker 3: year because of the uncertainty.
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  Speaker 2: To be honest, it's one of those things that you
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  Speaker 2: just this is in my lane. My lane is to
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  Speaker 2: understand the game plan, put myself in position for guys
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  Speaker 2: around me to be successful as possible. If you try
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  Speaker 2: to get outside of your lane or outside of what
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  Speaker 2: you know is in the realm of your control, that's
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  Speaker 2: when you just play a game of mental gymnastics. Is
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  Speaker 2: not first of all, not healthy, and it's not going
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  Speaker 2: to help you do your job on Sunday. So that
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  Speaker 2: might have to be another answer that's just individualized to myself,
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  Speaker 2: But I feel like other guys share that same sentiment.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you, you're welcome.
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  Speaker 2: Nick.
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  Speaker 4: You talked about what you learned through losing. What how
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  Speaker 4: have you managed this? I mean when you're talking about
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  Speaker 4: you look at your career ninety two and fifty with
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  Speaker 4: you know, with twelve those losses coming this year, it's
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  Speaker 4: got to be so different. And you talked about you
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  Speaker 4: mentioned learning to maybe get up off the mat every week,
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  Speaker 4: but what have you learned about yourself and maybe how
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  Speaker 4: to handle losing?
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  Speaker 2: Well, it hasn't gotten easier, right, go ahead, I guess yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you're as a competitor, and not only is that, but
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  Speaker 2: as a person who you invest time throughout the week
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  Speaker 2: away from your family, you invest your body, You put
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  Speaker 2: yourself out in the line. You know you you're disappointing
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  Speaker 2: when things don't go your way, to say the least.
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  Speaker 2: And the first thing you do is you look at yourself.
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  Speaker 2: And the one thing I learned is that that's all
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  Speaker 2: you can worry about. That's all As a mature competitor,
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  Speaker 2: you have to focus on the things in your control.
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  Speaker 2: Like listen, I can't control other stuff. And I'm not
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  Speaker 2: saying it wasn't my you know, I'm not trying to
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  Speaker 2: underline that any other message. It's just the truth, it's like,
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  Speaker 2: focus on the things I can control, go out there,
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  Speaker 2: do your best to mitigate those, and then you have
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  Speaker 2: a next another game plan and you try to mitigate
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  Speaker 2: that and so on and so forth. So yeah, hopefully
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  Speaker 2: that answers your question.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, no, that's good. And secondly, this team blocks so
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  Speaker 4: well and past past pro and then really struggles seems
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  Speaker 4: like to open holes in the running game, especially in
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  Speaker 4: short guards. Is there a can you put your finger
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  Speaker 4: on why that's why it's so jack und hide here?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think for both passing and run blocking, there's
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  Speaker 2: so many different different variables that kind of go into it,
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  Speaker 2: you know. I think with the run game, you know,
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  Speaker 2: everyone's got to be on the same page, just like
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  Speaker 2: the past game. There's so many different variables that play
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  Speaker 2: into it. I don't know if I can totally give
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  Speaker 2: you an answer that there's just one thing that sticks
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  Speaker 2: out to me, you know, so we're just yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: don't have nothing for you.
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  Speaker 4: Can it be fixed? I mean, contractually, that looks like
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  Speaker 4: most of this team, especially on offense, is going to
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  Speaker 4: be back next year. Even the line looks like I mean,
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  Speaker 4: I would bet money that four four of the five
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  Speaker 4: are going to be back. Uh can you can you
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  Speaker 4: get better from I mean, I know you can get better,
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  Speaker 4: but can you fix maybe the running woes from your
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  Speaker 4: from you know, in six months.
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  Speaker 2: Now I can tell you next year.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, fair enough, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: This will be the last one.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, Mitch has a Do you think Mac Jones has
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  Speaker 5: proven enough to you and the teammates and he might
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  Speaker 5: be a starter in this league?
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  Speaker 6: Uh, somewhere else in the future. And how far has
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  Speaker 6: he gone since he began, since Trevor got hurt and
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  Speaker 6: went out of the season, how far has Mac progressed?
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  Speaker 2: Well? I think uh, you know, Mac Jones is not
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  Speaker 2: only an infectious personality, really brings the guys along, really
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  Speaker 2: great to have in the huddle. Uh, He's his confidence
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  Speaker 2: is not cocky. It's hard to explain. He's got confidence
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  Speaker 2: and his guys. He's got confidence in what he does,
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  Speaker 2: and he does a great job of bouncing back from
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  Speaker 2: mistakes but also learning from him not just kind of
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  Speaker 2: lase fair run around with football. I think Mac has
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  Speaker 2: a bright future in this league. And I think if
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  Speaker 2: any team gave him a chance to make it, make
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  Speaker 2: him the staple guy, they'd be lucky to have him.
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  Speaker 2: It's have been a privilege these past few weeks and
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  Speaker 2: months to play with him, just as it was with Trevor,
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  Speaker 2: especially as a guy who he kind of kind of
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  Speaker 2: hated when you were in Buffalo with the Patriots, right Like,
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  Speaker 2: he just we joke about all the time. He's just
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  Speaker 2: such a great dude, vibrant personality, and one of the
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  Speaker 2: most like guys in the locker room. So I don't
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  Speaker 2: know the answer to that. I wish I had a
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  Speaker 2: crystal ball like the run game, but I love the
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  Speaker 2: fact that he's getting this opportunity, he's putting his best
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  Speaker 2: foot forward, making mistakes, learn from him, and then going
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  Speaker 2: from there.
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  Speaker 5: Thanks.
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  Speaker 3: Yep, that's everyone. Thanks Mitch.